Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix

"We are fine improving our skills little by little; we don\'t care about reputation," Liss replied. "As long as we can do that and make a living with this work, then we are fine with it."

It looked like Jori and Reca made up in passion for the others since they lacked a lot of it. Rain was surprised that the group lasted like that… he thought that he had solved most of the problems when he worked with them before, but they still had a long road ahead of them.

In any case, since they had time and Rain had some mana as well, he decided to do some magic training while he meditated. Since some mages were close to him, that was a good chance that he couldn\'t miss.

"Those guys want to compete with me thinking that I can do everything, but in the end, I didn\'t make any progress in learning the skills that I wanted in the last few months," Rain thought while he was meditating. "Maybe I should ask Branden for some books."

After thinking for a while, Rain wondered if he could use the elements to measure how strong someone was, but even though he used some dirt to surround the others, nothing happened. The wind, water… nothing worked. Rain could use a bit of raw mana, and now he could use Magic Arrow as well, but only that… he couldn\'t use his mana from a distance and envelop someone to check their strength.

When Rain tried to use his mana directly on the others, nothing happened either… It was hopeless. The skill that he wanted was too powerful; maybe that was a sign that he had to give up on that.

"The power to sense someone\'s strength is too ridiculous in the first place… I guess even if I can\'t sense or see their strength, I should feel satisfied that I can feel the vibrations on the ground thanks to earth magic," Rain thought. "See… see… see?"

Rain wondered why he didn\'t think of that before… it seemed pretty obvious. What would happen if he focused his mana on his eyes?

Rain tried that, but soon he learned that controlling his mana in such an area was difficult since his eyes were a sensible part of his body, and it wasn\'t like his skin. Still, little by little, he began to pull that off. As he did that, he began to see everyone\'s aura…

An unknown skill leveled up.

The brawler\'s path received 1000 experience points.

"On a thousand points?" Rain furrowed his eyebrows. "Is this skill that advanced?" Rain thought.

That was the only explanation… that also seemed to be the case since Rain could see that the aura around everyone was different. Jori and Reca had an aura that was constantly moving around them and upward. Liss and Terra\'s aura looked like it was spinning around them in a small area. Asche\'s aura was the most different since she was an archer.

Her aura was thin all around her body, but it was more intense as well…

"As for mine… I can\'t tell exactly," Rain thought. "Judging by my arms and torso, it feels like an oval sphere… it would be a perfect sphere if my parameters were more balanced, I guess."

Since Rain was training his body and magic, it made sense that he would be all-rounded. In any case, soon, he began to improve his skill to the point that he also could see the color of the auras. Everyone\'s aura seemed light blue for some reason. When Rain checked with the workers and the guards, he confirmed that it was the same… even though the workers were way weaker.

"I get it… it is like a danger level," Rain thought.

It looked like Rain couldn\'t see the power level or the size of an aura, but if someone was much stronger than him, then the color of the aura would change. Perhaps if the enemies show some bloodlust, it will affect things as well.

Since it was dark, Rain decided to see if he could find the enemies in the distance hiding in the darkness. He couldn\'t help but smile when he saw some areas in the distance.

"Whoops… this skill consumes ten points of mana per second; I can\'t keep it active all the time," Rain thought, and then he got up.

"What is wrong, Rain?" Jori asked.

"I found some guys that want to play in the darkness," Rain replied. "They adopted the darkness; I was born in it."

Rain was in a good mood, so he spouted some nonsense before using Impulse and disappearing into the darkness. As he got closer to the aura, he noticed their yellow aura turning orange… his guess was right. Bloodlust affected his magical sight.

When Rain was fifty meters away from them, he suddenly noticed some other auras in the distance approaching. They looked yellow, and they moved wildly, showing long and pointing ends… Rain soon heard grunts and confirmed that they were monsters. At least fifty of them…

"You called them a bit too late…" Rain thought and then prepared to use Impulse once again. "Still, I shouldn\'t look them in the eye, just in case."

Rain closed his eyes, but the spell was still affecting his sight. While he couldn\'t see the environment, he could see the enemies getting up and grabbing weapons from their backs.

Before they could point them at him, Rain arrived in the middle of their group… out of the five, two of them had their skulls cracked by Rain\'s merciless punches. Meanwhile, the others focused their mana in their eyes as well…